[at-l] Thru-Hike DVDs

[Jim Bullard]

Well, I didn't want to be critical but... My wife watched part of it and and
made a comment to the effect that she'd seen better "B" movies. The plot
isn't great and it has credibility problems. There is this really chubby guy
who's hitting on the woman in the first part (that's believable) but she
hooks up with another guy. Here's the incredible part. Despite the brush off
and the fact that the heroine and her guy are doing 20+ mile days the chubby
guy is still with them when they get to VA and he hasn't lost an ounce. I
guess we are to assume he yellow blazed. I dunno. As Mags said, it's not
very good and my reading/viewing interest is accounts of real hikes not
fictional ones. Had I realized beforehand that it was fiction I'd wouldn't
have bothered with it..

On 7/18/07, Paul Magnanti <pmags at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Jim wrote:
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> >>Southbounders features a woman hiker. Unfortunately it is fictional and
> is
> >>more a love story than an AT film
> To be honest, it is also rather..er, not so good. :)
>
> Great music, good cinematography, has Mr. Shaw before he passed on...but,
> well,the storyline is rather melodramatic.
>
> I hate to criticize something that is obviously a labor of love, but it
> was rather Lifetime Channel-esque in many ways. (Will she profess her love
> for him? Will she go back to
> the trail? Will the dark, mysterious poetic guy fall in love with our
> heroine?)
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> If there is such a thing for this movie, worth a rental..I would not buy
> it.
>
> I remember the Trailside video with Maine Rose. I watched this two part
> episode before I  went off on my jaunt. Was rather inspiring.
> Too bad it is not on DVD.
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Jim Bullard
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